John Oliver celebrated Zohran Mamdani‘s win within the New York Metropolis mayoral race on Sunday’s episode of Final Week Tonight.
Mamdani prevailed over Andrew Cuomo, who’d been endorsed by President Donald Trump, in Tuesday’s election.
Oliver confirmed footage of Mamdani’s victory speech, by which the mayor-elect acknowledged: “I want Andrew Cuomo solely the very best in personal life. However let tonight be the ultimate time I utter his title as we flip the web page on a politics that abandons the numerous and solutions solely to the few.”
Oliver famous that many pundits criticized the speech, with CNN’s Van Jones opining that it was “sharp” and marked a “character swap” for Mamdani. (Different criticism got here from the Washington Publish, which ran an editorial that mentioned: “Throughout 23 indignant minutes laced with id politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani deserted his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity.”)
“That appears deeply unfair to me,” Oliver mentioned after quoting Jones. “He simply weathered one of the crucial Islamophobic campaigns in latest reminiscence. ‘I want Andrew Cuomo all the very best in personal life’ is a frankly superhuman stage of grace to increase to a person who has but to pronounce your title appropriately as soon as, particularly on condition that he might have mentioned, ‘Andrew, your marketing campaign was horrible.’”
Oliver then pointed to Cuomo’s adverts, together with a number of reportedly produced by AI. One particularly featured “the invoice from Schoolhouse Rock, pregnant, and with luscious kissable lips,” Oliver mentioned, then continued with an alternate model of what Mamdani might have mentioned to Cuomo in his speech: “Do you need to fuck the invoice from Schoolhouse Rock, Andrew? Do you? Properly, nice information, now you truly can in your personal life. I want you the very best, you pervert.”